Beadifferent Press Beadifferent Press publishes Lisa Van Herik's unique wire jewelry making techniques, tutorials and books.
At the Beadifferent site, you'll also find jewelry making how-to book reviews along with a multitude of tips and tricks for making your wire jewelry fabulous! Enjoy!
-Lisa Van Herik, founder, Beadifferent.com
09/28/2023
Art of the Day: Pastel Breeze - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. Pastel Breeze evokes the gentle movement of a luscious wind, softly caressing your skin. It's meant to center and calm the viewer bringing with it a sense of colorful peace and simple pause. The palm fronds sway quietly in a lovely visual melody. Although originally inten...
09/15/2023
Art of the Day: Heading Towards The Light - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. This is a piece that I completed during the pandemic. It starts out so dark and thru gradations of progressively lighter coloration, brings us to the golden light, slowly and subtlety but definitively. This is a piece about hope and tenacity, holding on to the belief that...
09/09/2023
Art of the Day: Colors In Love #5 - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. This piece is part of a series of paintings: Colors In Love. I have such a strong and powerful visual draw to saturated, bright colors that the title informs that. This painting also includes high texture which adds to the desert colors. I painted this following a visit t...
09/04/2023
Art of the Day: Come Fly With Me - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. This is a high textured acrylic painting done in my own "water painting" style which involves laying down multiple layers of color to achieve the ultimate saturated, deep colors. The technique is very time consuming and often involves both adding and subtracting colors th...
09/03/2023
Art of the Day: Skyscape - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. Skyscape was inspired by gazing at a gorgeous evening sky. When painting it, I kept seeing the complexity, movement and merging colors in this pensive piece. It's both calming and stimulating. This has been one of my most popular pieces.
09/02/2023
Art of the Day: Pond - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. Pond is a derivative of my standing and peering into this fascinating pond surrounded by craggy rocks. Its' depth and movement mesmerized me and brought a rare calm with it. Peace.
09/01/2023
Art of the Day: Movement - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. Brightly colored reminiscent of the 70's, Movement speaks to the cultural turmoil of that period in time. The shapes in the painting repeat, indicative of the constant attempts to move and bring about needed change.
08/31/2023
Art of the Day: Little City - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. Little City was great fun to paint as the style is loose and free and the coloring vibrant and stimulating, You can see the streets and roads with all the little colored buildings as well as the outskirts of town. See the park in the center? Little City is a very happy pl...
08/30/2023
Art of the Day: Aztec - Studio Van Herik Available now for purchase. Aztec came after a trip to New Mexico where the gorgeous artworks surround you. While I typically don't do much with symmetry, I gained a real appreciation for it on that trip. I think Aztec is a compilation of much that I saw, the symmetry, the vibrant colors, the emphas...